It seems obvious on first listen that "Walking at a Downtown Pace," the first song on Parquet Courts' seventh album Sympathy for Life, is about returning to some semblance of normality after a year and change of lockdowns.
New York, the band's adopted home, was terrifying in the depths of the early pandemic, its uncanny silences interrupted only by frequent sirens, its bars and venues barren and vacated. "I’m making plans for the day all of this is through," Andrew Savage sings over an incessant groove. "Seeing my path and hearing the song I’ll sing and / Food that I’ll taste and all the drinks that I’ll consume / Return the smile on an unmasked friend." There's something eerie, then, in learning that "Walking at a Downtown Pace" was, like.
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